The Boston Globe has said it will no longer be running its Catholic news site Crux as of 1 April. The announcement came after less than two years of operation for the site. The Boston Globe cited financial reasons for the decision.
“The problem is the business. We simply haven’t been able to develop the financial model of big-ticket, Catholic-based advertisers that was envisioned when we launched Crux back in September 2014,” Globe editor Brian McGrory and managing editor and vice president for digital David Skok said in a letter to newsroom staff.“We’ve made the deeply difficult decision to shut it down as of April 1 – difficult because we’re beyond proud of the journalism and the journalists who have produced it, day after day, month over month, for the past year and a half.”
Vatican analyst and associate Crux editor John L. Allen Jr. said he and Vatican correspondent Ines San Martin will continue the site, and he hopes other partners can be found.
“What’s happening is that The Boston Globe will no longer be sponsoring Crux, but that doesn't mean Crux is closing,” he said on 11 March. “I and Ines San Martin are committed to keeping it going, and we are actively pursuing potential partners, sponsors and donors to make that possible. So the story here is not that Crux is ending, but that it’s transitioning.”
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